Strengthened /Weakened Slavery
The religious movement that motivated people to question the morality of slavery.
What is the 2nd Great Awakening?
The first state to secede from the United States after Lincoln was elected.
What is South Carolina?
The name given to the states that stayed in the United States but had slaves.
What are the border states?
The reason why so many free African Americans in the north were sent to the south as slaves.
What is US commissioners were paid more if they took the side of the slave owner and all it took for a slave owner to say a person was their slave was to write a statement saying so?
The party that was formed by the Conscience Whigs in 1854.
What is the Republican Party?
The law that Congress passed allowing for popular sovereignty in territories in that were part of the Louisiana Territory.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act? (strengthened slavery)
The total number of states that seceded from the United States.
What is eleven?
The military base where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
What is Fort Sumter?
What is put ads in the newspaper?
The law that the Confederate States of America included in their Constitution about slavery.
What is no law could ever be passed that would abolish slavery?
That law that Congress passed that allowed for popular sovereignty in territories located in the Mexican Cession.
What is the Compromise of 1850? (weakened slavery)
The state that was formed in 1863 because they did not agree with the other part of the state that seceded from the Union so they broke off and formed their own state.
What is West Virginia?
The day that marked the beginning of the Civil War. (MDY)
What is April 12, 1861?
The name given to the places where escaped slaves would hide during the Underground Railroad and the name given to the people that would assist them.
What are stations and conductors?
The reason why Southern states opposed Abraham Lincoln becoming president even though he was going to allow the Southern states to keep their slaves.
What is Lincoln was against the expansion of slavery into new territories and Southern states looked at this as being a step towards slavery eventually being abolished?
The case where the Supreme Court chief justice stated that a slave could not sue because slaves are not citizens and therefore, do not have rights.
What is the Dred Scott case? (strengthened slavery)
The number of states that seceded before Lincoln was inaugurated and the number of states that seceded after Lincoln was inaugurated.
What is seven and four?
Northern advantages in the Civil War.
What are 1. 90% of products were produced in the North. 2. The North had over 70% of the total population. 3. The North had a strong Navy.
The part of society that people in the North believed that slavery threatened and the part of society that people in the South believed that losing slavery threatened.
What are American society and Southern society?
The two books that were published in the 1850s that made the abolitionist movement gain momentum.
What is 1. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 2. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
The law that was passed that required escaped slaves to be returned to their masters.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850? (strengthened slavery)
The state where Lincoln enforced martial law to ensure that they stayed in the United States.
What is Maryland?
Southern advantages in the Civil War.
What are 1. No need to attack, just defend. 2. Intense protection of the homeland. 3. Foreign aid. 4. A long shoreline. 5. Well-trained and experienced officers.
The portion of the Constitution that states that escaped slaves must be returned to their masters.
What is Article IV, Section 2, clause 3 of the US Constitution?
The reason why Lincoln declared martial law in Maryland.
What is if Maryland joined the Confederacy then Washington, D. C. would have been surrounded by the enemy?